Leslie Lenzo Announced as New Hershey Trust CIO

After spending ten years as leader of Advocate Aurora Health’s investment office, Leslie Lenzo will take the helm as CIO at Hershey Trust in 2023.

Leslie Lenzo, current leader of the Advocate Aurora Health’s investment office has been selected as the chief investment officer of the Hershey Trust, after a search run by recruiter David Barrett.

Lenzo will assume the role at the start of 2023 and will follow outgoing CIO Janice Bratton who is retiring from the role after 33 years with the organization.

Hershey Trust serves as an investment adviser to the Milton Hershey School Trust, the M.S. Hershey Foundation, and the Hershey Cemetery Perpetual Care Trust and oversees a portfolio of $12.7 billion, most of which is made up of holdings in Hershey Co. stock.

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“We are pleased to welcome Leslie to Hershey Trust Company and are extremely confident in her ability to lead the organization and our investment program, building upon our already strong foundation,” said M. Diane Koken, chair of the board of HTC, in a statement.

Lenzo began her career as an investment analyst at Partners HealthCare Systems, and later served as an equity research associate at SG Cowen. Following Cowen, she took a role as an investments manager at Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, before joining Advocate as CIO in 2013, and staying with the organization through a merger with Aurora Health Care in 2017.

Lenzo is a member of the CIO Power 100 List, as well as, a 2019 CIO Industry Innovation Award winner in the health care organization category and a 2022 CIO Industry Innovation Awards judge.